John Ashbery
John Ashbery (born July 28, 1927, Rochester, United States; died 2017), was a Poet from the United States of America. Ashbery is best remembered for Where Shall I Wander, The Tennis Court Oath and Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror. Ashbery's honours include Bollingen Prize, Fulbright Scholarship and National Book Award.
John Ashbery’s zodiac sign was Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rabbit, with Life Path 9 in numerology.
Leo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a 
Fire Rabbit, with 
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John Ashbery’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Lightkeeper
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name John in the U.S.?
#23
US rank in 2025
~5,204,377
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
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John’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
9 · 3 · 4 · 6
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Ruby, Ruby, Carnelian
Flower constellation
💠 Larkspur · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌸 Hibiscus
Sky blue · Gold · Scarlet
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
John, according to the stars
Core essence
John is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of John is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
How John wants to be loved
John wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with John and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How John creates
How John makes things happen: they seep in. A Yin Water day master is rain, mist, the still pool that reflects everything. John creates by sensing, by imagination, by noticing what nobody else said. Their influence is quiet and total. The work is not dissolving into everyone else's weather.
Instinct
Instinct: John is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. John is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.
Triggers
Triggers: sloppiness, and being told they are overthinking it. Mars in Virgo means John channels energy into fixing, sorting, getting it right, and gets sharp when others do not care. The critic turns inward first. Give them a problem worth solving and watch them come alive.
Computed from John's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where John sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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John Ashbery in 15 seconds
Leo Sun
Leo SunWarm, loud, hard to ignore.
John Ashbery's Sun was in Leo for the whole of July 28, 1927, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Leo readings associate the sign with warmth, visibility and generosity: a natural claim on attention and a habit of handing it back as encouragement. Astrologers describe it as the fixed fire sign, ruled by the Sun. The corresponding tension is pride, with the classical caution that the need to be seen can crowd out people who would rather not be.
Fire Rabbit
Fire RabbitSoft voice, sharp read.
John Ashbery was born on July 28, 1927, which falls in a Fire Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rabbit readings emphasise tact, grace and the ability to settle a room without seeming to try. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rabbit as the diplomat of the cycle, alert to subtleties and fond of comfort. The corresponding caution in the tradition is avoidance: the tendency to slip away from a conflict that needed to happen.
Life Path 9
Life Path 9Wide view, open hands.
John Ashbery's birth date, July 28, 1927, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 9 readings associate the number with compassion, generosity and completion: a wide view that takes in more than one person's experience. Numerologists describe it as the path of the humanitarian, the last single digit and the one that closes cycles. The corresponding tension is diffuseness, with the caution that caring about everyone can be easier than showing up for someone.
What stands out in John’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in John Ashbery's date-only chart is Jupiter conjunction Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- Six of the ten planets are in Fire signs, and none in Air.
- Four planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus.
- John Ashbery combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Lightkeeper.
John’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for John Ashbery, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 27° to 10° Cancer or Leo depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableMoontrineJupiter0.0° to 6.7° orb
John’s feelings flow straight into their growth.
stableMoontrineUranus0.0° to 6.9° orb
John’s feelings flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableSunconjunctionMoon0.1° to 6.8° orb
John’s core identity and feelings act as one.
stableJupiterconjunctionUranus0.2° orb
John’s growth and need for freedom act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableVenussextilePluto0.4° to 1.0° orb
John’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSuntrineJupiter0.6° to 1.6° orb
John’s core identity flows straight into their growth.
stableMarssquareSaturn0.7° to 1.3° orb
John’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableSuntrineUranus0.8° to 1.8° orb
John’s core identity flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableSaturntrineUranus2.2° orb
John’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
stableJupitertrineSaturn2.4° orb
John’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableSuntrineSaturn3.0° to 4.0° orb
John’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturnsquareNeptune5.2° orb
John’s discipline grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire6 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.
John’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironTaurus 6°01′ (moves 0.01° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has John building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.
⚳ CeresSagittarius 7°11′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Sagittarius is read as nurture through freedom and wider horizons. John is read as someone who looks after people by giving them room.
♡ ErosLeo 11°27′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has John loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.
⚕ HygieaLibra 15°32′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. John is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 16°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of John that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 0.2°
- Hygiea square Pluto 0.4°
- Chiron square Sun 1.5°
- Ceres trine Sun 2.6°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
John’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ☉ Sun10 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon5 pts
disposes Mercury, Pluto; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
A Sun-led chart is read as identity out front: John is read as someone whose sense of self organises everything else.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in John’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
Grand trine · Sun, Jupiter, SaturnThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.- Grand trine · Sun, Saturn, UranusThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.1°
- Mars semi-square Pluto 1.1°
- Mars quincunx Uranus 1.2°
- Mars quincunx Jupiter 1.4°
- Uranus biquintile Neptune 1.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for John Ashbery, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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John’s cards
Every card is computed from July 28, 1927, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Water.
Year
丁
yin Fire
卯
Rabbit
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
未
Goat
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
癸
yin Water
亥
Pig
Water
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for John Ashbery, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
John’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q29418, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by David Shankbone, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same John Ashbery at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
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Quick answers about John Ashbery’s chart
- What zodiac sign was John Ashbery?
- John Ashbery was a Leo: born July 28, 1927, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Fire Rabbit.
- What was John Ashbery's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rabbit, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the July 28, 1927 birth.
- What time was John Ashbery born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was John Ashbery's Life Path number?
- Life Path 9, calculated in numerology from the July 28, 1927 birth date.
- What was John Ashbery's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 6°. Position from JPL Horizons for the July 28, 1927 birth date.
- Where was John Ashbery's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was John Ashbery's dominant planet?
- Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects). Moon is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
